Do miracles exist in skincare or is skincare like a marathon? It’s about consistency and what you do long term. We would consider bee venom an old trend and that stemmed from the Asia beauty market. I always think that trend comes and goes.

However, there are lots of bee venom cosmetic products out there.
It’s hard for the public to know which is a good one.
The reason being, is that bee venom itself as an ingredient, is very expensive.
It’s very labor-intensive, and you get very, very small amounts when you try to collect it.
It’s hundreds of dollars per gram. Some people have even compared it to the cost of cocaine.

And I know for a fact that a lot, or most of the products out there, don’t have a high enough dose to have an effect. So unfortunately, people will be wasting their money.

Bee venom is really interesting. One percent of the population are allergic to bee stings, and they should not use any bee venom product. It has been used medically for thousands of years, literally as bee stings, where people sting arthritic joints and get relief from their pain. The product is now making a come back. In theory, we know how it works.
So when a bee stings you, you get the initial pain, but you get local release of the body’s steroid after that.
And we know that steroid produced by the body gives a long-acting relief from inflammatory conditions, joint problems, pain, that sort of thing. So there’s good scientific rationale as to why it works. And there’s a lot of laboratory research we’ve done in test tubes and Petri dishes. And there were some good results. But very few companies invest in doing clinical trials. They’re expensive, they’re time-consuming and you might not get the answer you want as well.
People are wanting to get control of their health more and more these days. They’re doing their own research and feel empowered if they find a treatment that wasn’t necessarily one that the doctor tells them to take.

Bee venom has 63 components. Most of the stuff that’s evolved out there in the natural world are there to kill you. Nature doesn’t care about people. Bee venom is between 40 and 60% of a protein called melittin.
There are problems with mainstream medicine. We’re not doing everything perfectly. But turning to an unproven therapy isn’t a solution. Bee venom is kind of a witches’ brew of toxins and chemicals. They’re all there to cause you pain and harm. So about half of the bee venom by dry weight is the melittin, whic is the main protein. This causes pain, and it’s also meant to destroy tissue. The body of course, responds as it does any trauma, by trying to throw water on the fire. So your body will produce cortisol to counteract the inflammatory response and it will secrete analgesics to tamp down the pain. So there is research, for example, looking at injecting bee venom into the knees of people who have rheumatoid arthritis. There could be some local anti-inflammatory reaction, but it’s a pretty clumsy way to provoke a local anti-inflammatory reaction. We’re going to inject this mix of 63 different chemical that are meant to be destructive and pain-causing, just to provoke the body’s response. That’s a pretty dodgy approach, because you could just inject the cortisol into the knees. I don’t know why you wouldn’t do that. There is a standard in healthcare, ans it exists for a reason. It’s so that we don’t exploit desperate patients by offering them treatments which really don’t have a reasonable chance of working. But they’ll pay for it out of their desperation.

Does Bee Venom Therapy work?

Although bee venom has been used for centuries for its medicinal properties, there isn’t one piece of singular evidence or sound collective data in regard to its clinical effectiveness. “There are a few small studies done on its benefits in terms of skin health, inflammatory conditions such as Rheumatoid arthritis,” Dr. Posina explains, but it’s not enough to say it is definitively a helpful holistic practice for treating medical conditions.

“A randomized control study done in China in 120 people showed that bee-venom acupuncture showed some symptomatic relief similar to Rheumatoid arthritis medications such as Methotrexate and Celecoxib,” she adds. “However, we do need larger studies, including randomized control trials, to know that its effects are substantial and to initiate these treatments.”

Those who turn to bee venom for topical beauty treatments, however, may actually be onto something. Experts say the venom could potentially manage aging effects on skin: “In skin, there is some evidence suggesting its antimicrobial and anti-wrinkle effects. One study showed increased collagen protein synthesis, stimulated skin cell turnover, and recovery of damaged cells,” Dr. Posina says. But many leading healthcare experts agree: There needs to be more scientific evidence to validate any benefits before consumers can feel comfortable about any claims.

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